The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial w. Joanna Hausmann

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

Bryan & Krissy talk with Joanna Hausmann (comedian, head writer, podcaster, etc. etc. etc!) about all things Venezuela, being a weird girl, and working for Disney.  Parent-teacher conferences They know about TCB… Joanna Hausmann is joining us today We are big Joanna fans! TCB Infomercial Joanna’s telling the weird girl truth Returning (or not) to Venezuela Venezuela whatsapp groups Venezuela is in their China era The Venezuelan birthday song Joanna’s internet humor start Attack your interviewer! Joanna’s getting us into Disney Find Joanna on instagram @johaus and on her podcast, Hyphenated (find her linktree here). LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Were you liked in high school? Yes? You're not a weird girl. Okay, have you been over-medicated or under-medicated for the entirety of your life? No? You're not a weird girl. Okay, have people asked you, oh my God, are you on drugs

when you were just being yourself? You're not the weird girl. Guess what? I'm one of them too. No, you're not. F*** off. ["I'm Not a Weird Girl"] On this episode of the Commercial Break.

I mean, I need to be fully honest here. I do know Paco from our... On this episode of the commercial break starts now Yeah I'm Brian Green and this is the engineer of our Grand Funk Railroad. Chris enjoy. Hopefully best to you Chris Hey, hi You're out there at the Popcast Universe. Hi, Brian. Wee! Round two.

Round two. We just did a really nice episode of the commercial break that you'll never hear, and neither will we, because we didn't record it. It was warming up. It used to happen every other episode. It doesn't happen that often anymore, because I have Chris, he's also checking. She's like, I don't trust Brian. other episode. It doesn't happen that often anymore because I have Chrissy's also checking.

She's like, I don't trust Brian. I mean, check and make sure that's recording. But somehow we both missed it. But anyway, whatever. You know, part and parcel of working here at the commercial break. I Brian. I Brian. I Brian.

So, you know, it's time for the kiddos to have their little parent teacher conferences. I don't know if I shared this or I think I mentioned a couple days ago We had to go to parent teacher conferences at the school. I Know and I'm always wondering do you I haven't done many of these Do you get a like a little twinge of nervousness? I do I find that I do but I think it has nothing Well, here's what the kids we walk in this is what we find ourselves doing we walk in and they're good. Well, here's what the kids, we walk in, this is what we find ourselves doing. We walk in and they're like, oh my God, they're so great. He's so great, she's so great, they're awesome.

And we're like, are you sure? They're not like throwing anybody from the top bunk off down onto the floor. They're not gouging each other's eyes out. No one's spitting out food or yelling and screaming and uncontrollably because that's what's happening at the house. So what we find is like a therapy session going on in there.

We're like, but does she send anybody else's hair on fire? No, because she's on that twice to her little sister already this week. And they're like, no. We haven't seen that. Should we be looking for that? Yes, we'll be looking for that. Well, you don't have lighters here, do you? I keep the gasoline away from that one.

And then the other thing, like I've heard this about parenting before, which is if they're good outside the house and bad inside the house, you're doing a good job of parenting them. That means they feel safe inside the house. That means that that just makes you feel better. Yeah, actually. That means that someone on Instagram made that up. You're doing a good job.

Yeah, you're doing a good job. There is so much shitty parenting information on an Instagram, I can't even believe it. It's like everybody thinks they're an expert because they had a kid one time. And they, you know, oh, try this trick, work like a charm. We try those tricks and they never work like a charm. They just aggravate the child even more.

That's all they do. That's all it does. So we go in and, you know, they have like, they don't have report cards, but they got like these progress reports, you know, X's, if they've, if they're being observed, like writing in, you know, full sentences or whatever, and O's, if they're not being observed doing that. And so they, you know, they've got mostly X's all the way down the line.

So we got nothing to complain about. And the kids are good. They are really, are wonderful children. They really are. Just not with me. Let me just not 24 hours. No, not 24 hours a day. Yeah, they let loose in the 18 hours a day they happen to be with us. The six hours a day they're at school, it's fine. But the reason why I think I get a nervous twinge now is because the secret is out. They know that Brian Green does the commercial break.

And even though they don't talk about it out loud, they know and I know they know. That's right. I know you know that they know yes I know you know that that person knows that we do the commercial break and everybody knows The same reason why these conspiracy theories aren't true It's because no one keeps a fucking secret even though one time one of the teachers was like your secret is safe with me She like whispered it in my ear and I was like, What's secret?

What's secret? What are we talking about? Who are we keeping it from? The commercial break. Oh, please do keep that secret. If you don't mind. Go on down that path. Yeah, if you don't mind if we could keep that a secret.

But of course no one keeps any secrets. And so I was in the school the other day and we go into one classroom and we, you know, I was praying that the teacher doesn't say anything about, you know, so do you find you have any trouble because you're such an asshole on your show with your children? I heard that last episode.

Yeah, I heard that last episode. You were talking to shit. And then we go into the other one and no, okay, everything's fine. I dodged a bullet. They're great. Everything's good. They're doing wonderful. But then we get out. There's like this long hallway. It's justged a bullet, they're great, everything's good. They're doing wonderful.

But then we get out, there's like this long hallway. It's just like a preschool, right? A preschool with a kindergarten. This is a long hallway. And we gotta walk down the hallway and there's all these other parents waiting to have the parent teacher conferences. So there is one couple that I don't know very well.

I haven't met face to face, maybe one time I shook a hand at a different event or something, but they are staring me down Chrissy, and all I can think to myself is that those two have heard from someone, everyone, anyone, that Brian does the commercial break and he's the asshole who's causing, you know, like now they're blaming their children's activities on me. That bad influence. That's right. Well, do you have any time to teach your children

when you're listening to the commercial break? If you don't kick them out, we're leaving. It's like that only fans lady. The only fans, yeah. That's why you park across the street and walk in to pick them up. That's right. Maybe if we had an only fans,

I know they're probably like, how does he make money with that show? It's so stupid. How does anybody live? We don't! We've been trying to figure that out for nine months ourselves. How exactly are we gonna make a living doing this? A little dusting of love, determination, love determination and spouses that make money and supportive family members that loan us cash. and spouses that make money and supportive family members that loan us cash. Exactly. Oh, thank God for them.

Hey, I'm really excited because it's a TCB infomercial day and today's infomercial guest is Joanna Hausman. She's so funny. I mean, her Instagram was hilarious. I was checking it out a couple of days ago when I knew she was coming on. Yes. And everybody should subscribe. I agree with you.

Yeah, Joe House, J-O-H-A-U-S is, you can find her on Instagram. She also has a YouTube channel. I don't think she's been very active on the YouTube channel a little while, but it's called Joanna Rance. It's really funny. Joanna is different than some of our guests in the sense that she's not coming on

to promote anything in particular. She's here because we are big fans of hers here at this house. Astrid, she's a Venezuelan American and she does this kind of line of comedy where it's like, you know, what other people think about my complicated, you know, genetics or my? Yeah. That's right. It's like, you know, identity politics is identity comedy and it's really fucking funny and spot fucking on. And oftentimes she'll do comedy from the perspective of someone that's close to a Venezuelan. So you know, talking about the food and stuff like that.

So we find her to be really funny around the house. She also wrote for Tacoma FD, which was one of my favorite shows over the summer because it was the only show that I could actually download onto my phone from Spain for some reason. Oh, you're in Spain. Yeah, even with the V... Yeah, being chased around the chickens while downloading the latest episode of Tacoma FD. Because the VPN wouldn't work and for some reason Tacoma FD just let me watch it. I don't know, they didn't...

They were like, oh here, anywhere in the world, go ahead, watch it. Why do we care? Which is how everybody should think about it, but anyway. Go ahead, watch it, why do we care? Which is how everybody should think about it, but anyway. And then she's got a hamster and Gretel on Disney Plus and Disney, which is really funny in and of itself. I mean, it's a kid's cartoon, but it's made for kids that are a little bit older.

So I think that if you have children, you can probably get into it. But, you know, we asked her to come on because I identify so much with, and Astrid identified so much with and asked her to identify so much with what she's talking about in her brand of comedy. It's just generally funny, but then it's also funny in a way that's specific and I connect with and so I'm so happy to have her on.

Like an insider joke kind of thing. And so do yourself a favor and check out Joanna Hausman. She's going to be on here in just a minute. Settle down everybody. I can hear you all screaming. Okay, get to it fucking Brian. All right, we're gonna get to it, I promise. But I also wanted to share with the audience

that TCB is now, TCB Infomercials are now the guest days. So when you see TCB Infomercial in the title, that means that we're having a guest. And then a cute little name that we made up that you just figured out, and you found out about 12 minutes ago. Approved. Approved.

Stamped. Stamped, thanks. Stamped after you said it. It's like when Brian asks if they'll come on, if you'll come back on the show to my guests and we're recording. Yeah, they're like, every time, yeah, sure. Yeah, of course, sure, why not?

I'll never talk to you again. They're on the spot. Yeah, they're already texting time. Yeah, sure. Yeah, of course. Sure. Why not? I'll never talk to you again Yeah, they're already texting their agent never again That's right I've always said and I'll continue to say you're either on your way up or on your way down when you meet the commercial break And so we'll figure out which one that is with Joanna will be back with her after these words Sorry to interrupt but that's kind of my thing these days. If you're sick of me interrupting Brian,

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Thanks PricePix for being a sponsor of the commercial break. And Joanne is here with us now. Hi, Joanna. Hello. Hi, how are you guys? We're great. We're really good.

We're really good. This is an exciting day here at the Green Household. I do have to tell you. Yes, it is. The Boquete Green Household, because my wife has been such, of my wife, my brother-in-law, my mother-in-law, my father- father-in-law my other brother-in-law and then many other Venezuelans that I know Find you to be The top clam in the sea they really you're the best and they're so excited that you're here on the show

Are do you find that fluttering around on morning? She's like that's so sweet And I feel so bad because I texted Astrid like, yo, is this happening today? Like, what's going on? I didn't, you know, I didn't tell any of it with kindness. Yeah, Joanna got rough rider. She was like, yo. What the? Yo, Vee Ed, channel C. Yo, what you. Yo, Vee-Ach, I don't see you. Yo, what the fuck? Fuck! She, I know she was got so scared. She was like, what happened?

And I went, nothing, just to tell her that, you know, it's still on, we're still here. We'd love to have Joanna on the show. I have to say this first and foremost, you have one of the most hilarious Instagram posts that I've ever seen, ever. And that is weird weird hashtag weird girl. So I'd like to explain this.

She's very. I'm so glad I'm so glad that you're you're bringing this up because just before you explain it, I to preface, I recorded that angrily one day. And then was like, I'm just gonna upload it, who cares? Yeah. And it went so viral, I was like, this is almost illegal. Like I put so much work into other things and this was just an angry rant.

Anyway, Brian, sorry. No, honestly, we've got a million views on one of our reels and it's basically me saying I think I'm more important than I actually am it was like a throwaway line in an episode and they Someone cut it up and put it on there. I got a million. I'm like why why I didn't do anything I wish you would listen to the fucking show. That's what I want So Joanna has this post where she um She's basically post poking fun at these like super regular rich popular girls

who are out there doing hashtag weird girl because they're eating a french fry or they put something on their head or they're, you know, doing something that most of us would do every 30 seconds. Like, I think all of us are weird when we're not on camera or in front of other people. We do weird shit. We're humans. That's what happens. But some people post it as if it's some kind of nomenclature that they're tied to that makes them extraordinary. And I think it's just popular girls telling you they're more cool than they think they are. It's the appropriation of weird girl culture.

Agreed. It's appropriating what is, it's not theirs. What kind of reaction did you get from people? I was, okay, so I uploaded the rant cause I was like, I literally can't handle this anymore. If I see one more girl called Ashley with perfectly curled hair, just like dancing in a very normal like Bop Mitzvah approved way in a grocery aisle.

I will kill myself. So I uploaded this. I went to bed the next day. It was like at I don't know 400,000 likes. Jesus. Like not even views likes and I, what? And all of the comments are people like, thank you so much for telling our truth. It's just been an unspoken up problem on the internet. And I'm like, oh, people, first of all, wow. Second of all, I didn't realize this was like hurting people in a way that all most of the comments are really sincere. And a lot of people are like, is this satire? And I'm like, what part? Do you think I'm pretending to be mad? What, there's too many layers.

Which one of your brain cells isn't firing off correctly? Which is like half the internet. The other thing that Chrissy and I are always going at is these are these girls and men, to be fair, boys and girls that are out there and they're in some state of disrobing or undress, and then they'll put some inspirational quote right below their nipples. And it's like, what in the fuck are you- Follow your dreams.

Yeah, follow your dreams. Here's my boobs. What are you trying to do? I don't understand. What is the message there? It drives me fucking nuts. In the future, there's going to be an art history class talking specifically about this pastiche that has come out of the internet. Like how is this entertainment? One of my tweets, this woman just took, right? And then she put half of her face on camera with no emotion.

And then my tweet on top, and she just stared into the camera with some music and it had like a bunch of, like millions of views. Holy shit. And it's her, it's on her. Yeah, it's her Twitter, not mine. You're not, she's not also not adding anything. She's just. Yeah.

Have her face. Breathing. Breathing. I don't get it. I feel old, honestly. I know. I agree with you. Yeah, it's hard for me to wrap my head around

some of this stuff. It really is. And there are people too. Like we get shares on our Instagram posts or on whatever TikToks sometimes and people are just like staring at the camera and then they're like, point, this guy said it right? And it's like, did you add anything by saying that?

Like, are you doing anything? But then the crazy part is he gets more fucking likes than I do. And I'm like, what the hell? I think that this interview is gonna be unearthed in like 20 years, and someone's gonna call me problematic for destroying these creators that do nothing.

I'm gonna be like, this is what all content is now. Why were you being such a hater? That's it. Let's go in that direction. That's it. I am positive of the 600 plus hours we have done of this show. 300 hours of that are gonna be highly offensive

in five years. Like in five years, we're definitely headed for cancel culture. What can I do? I don't know, I guess. I guess I'll be canceled at some point. This might be a rite of passage. True.

At this time. So you were born in England, but you were born in England, but then your mother was from Venezuela, is that correct? Two of my parents. Two of my parents, what am I saying? My two parents are from Venezuela, they met in Venezuela, and then I'm trying to remember what year, but it doesn't even matter, I wasn't around. what year but it doesn't even matter I wasn't around. Um, they, they went to England to study and I was just born there by accident during spring break. Like I have no connection to England at all.

Yeah. At all and every, every time people ask me where I'm from, it's like, oh, so then you're, I mean, you're English. So then where does the Venezuelan come in? I'm like 100% Venezuelan. But my parents decided to really ruin the simplicity of my future by just, plus Margaret Thatcher changed the law. I'm not even like literally British. If you're born in England after 1987, like your parents have to be English to be considered English. You're not, you're not considered. There's no birthright. Yeah, there's no birthright. Yeah, there's no birthright. So I hated it.

And so I wasn't even just born in England or London. I was born in Royal Lemington Spa, which is like, it just sounds like a fake town full of like, which, by the way, is not a very fancy town. But it's called Royal Lemington Spa because the queen would go to a spa there like, or went once. Yeah, she went there once and they named it they named it for you got a fantastic British accent for someone that's not even practicing. I just wanted to prove Margaret Thatcher wrong. I should have had that British passport all along. You have no idea how problematic

the Venezuelan passport is. Yes. You know, you know, you'll put through your wife, you understand. I totally understand. And I also have to say, there is many passports as you can possibly get, maybe, maybe who've you in the future. So, you should go back to England and then you can get to passport. Do you have an English passport? Would you like one? I'm just going to show up and do this accent and they'll be like, Blah eh, how?

She looks like us, she talks like us. Let her in. Let her in, please. It's like our immigration policy. Do you look like us? Do you talk like us? All right, come on by. No, no, no, no, no. If you don't, please go away. I don't like I don't need you here causing trouble taking my job. Did you have a job to lose in the first place? But So your parents are from Caracas or that's where you that's where you grew up my mom was born in Havana My dad was born in Caracas. I I Like was there until I was six or seven And then came to the States until I was 13 and then while everyone was leaving Venezuela Because it was super day,

it was the murder of the capital of the world at that time. My parents were like, this is the perfect time to go back and have our teenage daughter go through high school. And it was crazy. We'd have like, I remember I'd go from having snow days in Boston to having like political days in Venezuela. Where there's fire fires everywhere. Yeah. Like rallies, fire fires, like, you know, violence and you

can't go to school today. Yeah. Do you go back? Have you ever been, have you been back recently to Venezuela? So no, I haven't been back in like 10 years. Okay. Part of it is because my dad is, for for example a persona non grata He wrote an article in the Economist one time and now the government wants to put him in jail because that's what works He's not a chavista. I would I would assume no, but not at all a chavista not at all supporter of the regime And then my uncle is a journalist there. He was in jail for two years for being a journalist.

And then I wrote an article or it was sort of like a vlog vlog. No, a video essay. That's how the people call it. Yeah. Yeah. But in the New York Times, they don't call it a vlog. They call it a video essay, a video op ed. Yes. Well, they went to nice schools. They have to call it something fancy. They can't tell their parents now. They just like edit blogs. I'm a went to nice schools. They have to call it something fancy. They can't tell their parents now they just like edit logs.

They can't do that. I'm a vlogger, dad. Can't do it. You went to Harvard. So I did this like video essay on the political situation in Venezuela in like 2018. And now I'm also persona nongrada. So like technically maybe I could go back. Well, like I could be risking jail time. Yeah, everything. Yeah, everything. Yeah, so I'm like

I don't know. I think I like my life a little too much to to to go back at this point. I wish I could yeah Absolutely wish I could I still have a lot of family there I so Astrid and I have had this debate when I met Astrid she lived in Venezuela I had been a best friend of a Venezuelan here, repatriated here in the United States with his entire family, and they took me under their wing. Like, I became, you know, Pelones. I'm Mr. Gringo and the family, and I'm Venezuelan. I'm the white Venezuelan, basically. And so that's how I met my wife through that family, and then she moved to Switzerland and then the whole song and dance that she comes here. She hasn't

been back since. But now, when I met her father at first, we were talking about would we ever visit Venezuela and her father. My father-in-law says, I will, first of all, he says, I, but I am about everything. Because he's like a true man. He's like MacGyver. He can fix anything with gum and floss. Yeah. Yeah. He built this whole studio basically. And so he can do it in a day and I have a hard time like using a screwdriver. Yeah. And so he's always saying, I am not under his breath walking around the house. I am not. So he says to me, listen, I'm not gonna let you come to Venezuela unless I am assured that I can keep you safe. Right. So there's so when we met, he was like, there's no way.

Maduro, Guaidó, the whole thing, all the political rallies, kidnappings, the economies and the shit, you know, basically the money's not even worth the paper that it's printed on. You cannot come down to Venezuela right now, just speak one word of English and you're in trouble in some places.

And, but recently there has been some discussion that things are a little bit better in Venezuela and maybe now is the time to go visit. And I see all these Americans who are running down there on eco-tourist trips and they're running down there to go see the beautiful waterfalls and all this stuff. And I'm like, do these people not realize that Venezuela, like the majority of Venezuelans are probably still living

a terrible life right now because of this dictatorial regime that's going on. And so I'm trying to triangulate whether or not I should actually be down there for any particular reason. You know what I love? I love that. I was invited to this podcast under the guise that it was a comedy podcast. And here I am giving you very serious advice about life or death situations in a dangerous country. It's the only reason that I had you on was like, I'm going to ask Joanna. And if she I am giving you very serious advice about life or death situations in a dangerous country. It's the only reason that I had you on was like, I'm going to ask Joanna and if she

says it's okay, then I am going to go down. Listen, I've heard this a lot. Okay, I've heard. I'm Brian. I'm Brian. I'm Brian. Here's the thing. I mean, I think that this is my theory.

This is like, you know, I am telling you gossip like from like a second hand source. This is like me giving you advice, do you know what I mean? It's coming from your mother. But from what I've heard. Yeah, absolutely. Of course. And from a WhatsApp group with 70 people

with like too many forwards. I'm in 40 of them. I get it, yeah. I'm in 40 of them, yes get it. I'm in 40 of them. Yes. So what I've heard is that Venezuela and the Venezuelan government right now, they're like, you know how we were being really oppressive? And that's not really working for us. So let's just be oppressive to people that speak out against us and then pretend everything's fine that speak out against us and then pretend everything's fine with the tourists. Yes.

And sort of like show off this image of like wealth and that everything's going great so that people feel good coming here, but we will put you in jail. Yes. We'll say anything bad. So it's kind of like more like the China model than the Cuba model.

So they're like kind of like switching it up. They're in their like China era. Yeah. So I do think it's less unsafe, but it is definitely unsafe for people that are outspoken. And if you just keep your mouth shut, Brian. And go to the waterfall. I think it'll be fine.

I have 600 hours of content. And I don't know if I've always said the right thing about Venezuela. So it makes, honestly makes, and now I've had Joanna Hausman on, I'm on the blacklist for sure. Oh for sure. You should publish this after you go if you do go.

Yeah. I'll publish it as I'm walking through immigration offices. As I'm walking through. Oh good. That's a brilliant through customs. Oh, good. That's brilliant timing. When you come to the United States, when you come back to the United States, what sets you off kind of on this?

You had this wonderful YouTube, Joanna Rantz. First of all, how did you get, like when did you decide I'm gonna go in front of camera? I knew it would be a personality and be a comic and write the stuff. If you always felt like that was something that you wanted to do? I always knew I wanted to get into some iteration

of comedy, growing up at home, I didn't realize comedy was this very complex career that sort of like comprises of many different elements. So when I came here, I was like, I wanna be a playwright, I don't know. And then I went to Second City. Yeah, I was like, what's something that is funny? And that I can write an actin'

that isn't so impossible like television. And I was like, I guess maybe playwright, which is still very hard. I don't know what I was thinking. But then I went to Second City right after college and it was like, Oh, there's this whole type of like there's sketches, there's improv, there's stand up. Like I didn't know these things. Yes. Like, yeah, there's late night shows. There's, you know, and I was like, okay, I know what I, I sort of want to do. And I've always, since I moved around so much and

I know what I sort of want to do and I always since I moved around so much and my identity is so utterly complicated and just Existing is sort of like I have to explain it to people. Yeah, like why are you you? Um, I always use comedy Yeah, we literally just spent the entire time. Thank you for setting me up for this. Um So I think comedy for me has always been a way to like, I don't know, just, just to go about the world in a way that makes more sense. Yeah. Um, and, uh, yeah, I, I don't know. I, I started doing a standup and then I got hired to be basically a glorified assistant for this

channel called flama on Univision. It was like Univision's attempt to do like a college humor. Um, and we were working with all these creators and stuff. And then my, uh, boss was, uh, uh, I actually asked my boss to just let me borrow the studio for a day, uh, with my friend Chris and just, we're just going to make a video and see if it works. And we published a video where I rant about the, you know, the misconceptions of being Latino because on the page, I didn't feel like I would belong. Like one of the reasons I didn't push for myself for a while

was because, you know, I look like an Irish barmaid and I was born in Royal Emington's spa. My last name is Hausman. I belong in a stettle. And like, you know, I was like, no one's going to believe that I'm Venezuelan. Like this is just going to be so then I made a video about how ridiculous like our assumptions are about Latinos. That went viral and that sort of like gave my boss sort of the reassurance that maybe I could have some interesting videos and points of view. And then I just started publishing videos and they did very, very well.

And I just got very granular and specific with my existence. Yeah. So I love that. And here we are. Yeah. And here we are. This brought us here. We always say last stop is the commercial break. We, Chrissy and I like to think you're either on your way up or on your way down

when you visit the commercial break. So congratulations either way. Um, I think I'm at the peak Yes, I think one of the things that I like about your humor that I connect with about your humor because I am Because because we do have a mixed family here is that there are so many Misconceptions The identities of Latin Americans get tied up with one another and it's in the most ridiculous of ways. We're just talking about this before we

came on air. When we see someone else, when someone meets Astrid and they say, oh you're Venezuelan, do you know Paco from Mara Cabo? It's like no, she doesn't know fucking Paco from Mara Cabo. First of all, she's like any other human being, her knowledge of other human beings is limited to her circle of influence Like she doesn't know Paco from fucking Mara Kaibo But it's the ridiculous nature of how some people think and I can only Take on the American perspective because that's where we are the excuse me the US perspective I also learned from my wife that it's wrong to call ourselves Americans because they are also Americans

but as well so Is this? because they are also Americans, Ben as well. So, is this, was your brand of humor like spurred on by kind of this, I don't wanna say identity crisis, but this weird lumping in, everybody thinks everything about the same, about Central Americans and South Americans are all the same and, you know, they just kind of lump everybody together.

So many misconceptions and it must feel uncomfortable sometimes to be in those situations where you could derive a lot of humor. Yes. And I mean, I need to be fully honest here. I do know Paco from our, so this is a little awkward, but having said that. I owe him 60 bucks. I'm not going to tell you what for, but just tell Paco to calm down. Calm down. Okay, okay.

I'll talk to Paco. I'll text him on my WhatsApp chat after this. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think what sort of shocked me as I was making comedy was how many people felt represented in someone like me being like, hey, I'm from Venezuela and I am also Latina in my own way. Like, you don't know how many people were like,

yeah, man, I am an Afro Nicaraguan and I totally get you. I'm a Korean Peruvian and I totally understand. I didn't realize that me being like almost so unapologetic on how specific my identity is actually would make people feel like relieved. Yeah. Like, oh my God, someone's doing it. Yeah. Someone's telling these people that we're not all, Sophia, I've got to copy paste it. Right.

We are, we are, you know, we're very different. And I do think it's changed. I think that when I started doing internet comedy, dude, that was like, I hate saying this. I was 10 years ago. Okay. I couldn't even say it. It was 10 years ago.

And that era of the internet was really different. Totally. And even the barriers to entry to make content on the internet was very different. Now you have like editing software on your freaking phone. I see Venezuelans in the middle of like the Amazon uploading videos with their capybaras. Yes. And their chiwides. Yes. And so like there was a time where it wasn't that easy to access the internet and publish and edit. And now I think there's like more variety out there. But right when I began, these big companies like BuzzFeed and CollegeHumor, they were making all these really funny

sketches and sort of like no one was talking about like, oh, there's like other types of people that could be doing this and be very specific about their content. And I remember I made a video called the Venezuelan birthday song. And if you had told me a year before, like, you're gonna make an internet video. Hold on one second because my kid was born in July

and Astrid's just finishing up the birthday song now. Just go to the show. Oh, now? If you want, we can wait for her. It might be another two hours. I can't believe it. Dude, the Venezuelan, okay, I'm so glad you know this. Okay, so the Venezuelan,

Chrissy, I don't know if you know this. I do not know about the Venezuelan birthday song. It is, I'm not fucking with you. It is, I think nine minutes long. It's crazy. Can you imagine? It's insane. You sit there, you sit there.

There's no candle that can outlast it. So don't light the candles through your halfway through. Yes. You sit there for nine minutes and people are screaming and clapping. It's not even like a happy birthday. It's like, it's like you're being exercised. So if you

had told me a year before, like you're going to make a video, you're going to hire opera singers, you're going to hire a cast and crew, and you're going to shoot a video called the Eternal Venezuelan Birthday. So I'm like, who would watch that though? No one's going to watch that. It had 8 million views in 24 hours because, because they're, when you're on the internet, you do have your audience. The more specific you get, the better, the better results you have. So, so it sort of showed, I think a lot of, and, and many other, uh, Latino creators that came out in that era did the same, but I think it showed

people like, Oh, you don't have to be general market. You don't have to be. Hi, I am actually like the first, Ashley, the first internet video I did was called middle class white chick that I made with my friend because I was like, I guess I can make fun of what I look like. And it didn't do well. And then, you know, obviously, because I didn't know what I was, I was like, uh, what rhymes with hugs? Let's make a song about, um, but I feel like that showed people that, you know, the audience is out there, it's very diverse, you can get really granular. So, you know.

There's riches and niches, bitches, that's what they say, and. There's riches and niches, bitches. Yeah, did you just come up with that? I did. Well, I've been saying it for a long time, but I just said it out loud. Wow, I love that.

So, I also believe that while a lot of people probably identify very much with what you're saying like they say like you know hey I'm Afro Nicaraguan and you know thank you for sharing your complicated story because mine's complicated, seems complicated once you get out there in the wild but I also think that they're genuinely is a thirst by people to learn more about other cultures like hey I'm just kind of dumb about this stuff and now that I see it, comedy is the... Unify.

It's the unify... Yeah, it's a thread. It's an ability to... When people are laughing and learning, there's something really cool about that mix, I think. And that's why I really appreciate satirical humor and people who do it well. And I think you do it really well.

And then there is Tacoma FD. I wanna ask you about Tacoma FD. Let me tell you a story. I went to, asked her to Spanish, like a lot has, you know, her dad is Spanish, like a lot of Venezuelans are partly Spanish. So we go to Spain often because that's where we have some extended family also. So

we went to Spain for, I don't know, a long time, a month in the last year in the summer. And we went to a series of Arabian bees that seemed like the world's most terrible Arabian bees that looks really pretty. You know what I'm saying? Like you show up, there's no internet, but they have an indoor pool and you're like, great, but I can't fucking call anybody. Like that kind of shit. So we're out with and you're like, great, but I can't fucking call anybody. Like that kind of shit. So- Weren't you out with the chickens, like trying to get internet?

Yes, then there was- I was on some Spanish hillside and I was trying, it was the middle of the night trying to get internet from the neighbor and there were chickens chasing me. I didn't even know they, I didn't even know chickens were nocturnal, but there you go. So in a, in a mad dash to get anything familiar that I

could watch at night, when we had internet service, I downloaded one of the only things that was available to me, which was Tacoma. And I watched all of it. And I loved it. It was so stupid and fun. I just loved every minute of it. I thought it was great. How did you you you write you have hamster and gretel on Disney plus you've written for Stephen Colbert you've written for Tacoma FD, how did you get mixed up with those guys? It's because that you were part of upright citizens brigade or dude. I do I still don't understand Because I mean I love those guys.

So the broken lizard guys, you know, they they've been around forever. They're, you know, icons in in comedy. But like, you know, they're very different than than me. Obviously, like they're they're they're dude comedy. And they're they're shows about a bunch of firefighters in the rainiest city in America, Tacoma, and it's, and you know there's a bunch of dudes called Mike in the writer's room. I think there's more mikes than women. And, but like Steve Lemme who is one of those show creators is actually from

Argentina and they were looking for a new writer. I think they were specifically like Steve Lemme, who is one of those show creators, is actually from Argentina. And they were looking for a new writer. I think they were specifically looking for a female writer. And in the interview, I guess they read my sample, then in the interview, I started like making fun of Steve Lemme because he's Argentinian. I was like, oh, now, Steve, you think you're like, oh, the shit, right? Because you're from Argentina. And he was like, wait, why are you tagging me? I'm interviewing you.

I'm actually going to be your boss. You realize that, don't you? Yeah. I was like, dude, Argentinians. And I started, you know, I started rousing him a little bit. And I don't know if that's the reason I'd like to believe it is, but ironically, it's actually, I think a lot of it was this sort of connection to Latin culture.

A lot of people don't know that he, his dad is from Argentina. Yeah. And we talked about it and we still to this day sort of like, you know, when we text I call him Boludo. So that that is sort of that is sort of like a secret in, I think I had. Tacoma. Yeah, what a fun show to watch. I mean, it is certainly white guy down the middle

working class comedy, right? Yes. But it is also pretty funny at times. I found myself laughing out loud. And they're such nice people. Like, I was like overwhelmed cause like I, I, that was out of my comfort zone in many ways.

And, and they were just so nice and sweet. And, and I had a really great time working on that show. And I learned a lot. They, they really taught me a lot about structure and, and how to work in a writer's room. And when we did this during the pandemic, oh wow. It was like, you know, it was all remote

and we were able to make a show. And obviously they bore the brunt of it as the creators and executive producers, but they were able to make a show in the middle of a pandemic. Crazy. Following the rules. They're badass.

Yeah. And not to get too deep about Tacoma FD, but I do have to say this, it's very funny, but it's very sweet also. Like at the end of the day, I don't feel like anything is like, you know, there's like mean spirited comedy out there, which can be good in and of itself.

You know, that can be a great deal of fun also, that dark, you know, kind of mean, poke in the belly kind of thing. But there's something very sweet about Tacoma FD and I just found it to be to be great. Yeah. Yeah. So my kids are going to not, they're going to kill me if I don't ask this question.

How do you, if you're working on Hamster and Gretel, tell us about this show. So Hamster and Gretel, created by Dan Palmermeyer, who was a co-creator of Phineas and Ferb. He was married to a Venezuelan woman. So I swear to God, this is a constant... Wow. This is literally my life. We should start a club. White guys, white guys, Venezuelan white guys.

And the same, he said the same about, that you did, which is like, I have a Venezuelan family. They adopted me. They did. They do. And I don't know what they say half the time, but they go, I then, I then. I. So Dan and I connected for the same reason you and me are connecting right now. Yeah.

He watched my content like several years ago and we connected and we're friends. And he during the pandemic again, made it a small like eight minute short about a girl with superpowers and her brother that doesn't get any and a talking hamster and all this and Disney Green lit it. And then he was like, do you wanna head right this?

I was like, I've never worked in animation before Dan. And he was like, that's fine. He'll figure it out. And so, so I've, yeah, I've been headwriting and now co-executive producing the show for three years. We're almost done with season two. It's been really fun. We incorporated a Venezuelan.

Thank you. We incorporated a Venezuelan mom as sort of like a cultural linchpin in it. And she is like, you know, she's like our asterisk. Yeah. And it's been really cool to add even like, I hate, you know, this is like a sincere comment, but I hate being sincere because I'm a comedian

and it's actually, it's against my nature. It's hard to swallow. I may combust, I may combust, comedian and it's actually it's against my nature. It's hard to swallow. Yeah. I may combust. I may combust. But it's actually really heartwarming to see like characters because the grandma is based on my grandma then you know, they are epa, they have a reina pepias, they have like tequeños. You see like a lot of you know, a lot of these like cultural, like details are sprinkled in.

We don't make a big D out of it in every episode. But it's just, it's just there. It's just part of who these characters are. And it feels really nice to, you know, going from convincing my boss to let me work, like, you know, record and yell in a studio for an hour and uploading onto YouTube to then like incorporating these elements into an animated show has been has been cool. Now I will combust. Really cool. And then your target audience is up and coming blossoming kids with big

brains that are, you know, just exploding. And then they're getting, they're soaking up these details that hopefully will make a difference in the future and how they think about different cultures. And I think that's really cool. Now the question is, do you work for the Disney Corporation or do you work for a production company that then sells to the Disney Corp? You don't have to tell me the details if you can't. But I'm just curious to how all that works. I work for Disney, but I actually don't, okay, I feel like I'm an accountant now,

but I have a loan out company. I have a company and they hired my company. So technically I work for my company that works for Disney. Yes. Does that make sense? Yes. So here's the question. Since we are family, can you get us into Disney World for free

because it costs $27,000 per child and I have 30 of them. I, okay, first of all, I think I can. Oh! As of, as of, I'm not even kidding. Oh my God. As of like a month ago, I think I can. Wow. So, so yes, and I'm, I'm, I'm being honest, if you guys do come here, just seriously let

me know But I'll go yeah, we're close to the world We you know we're over here in Atlanta, so we're close to the Disney world But you can come in you and Astrid would kick it off swimming you There's something about the and I know that like you know We spent a good portion of this particular interview talking about your Venez Venezuela and you're probably so much more than just Venezuela but I find so that's what connects me to you that's why when I watch your and your your brand of comedy I'm connected to it because I understand it and ticanos are the love of my life and I haven't met no rapa that I dislike

and Pepeata is lovely and the only thing I dislike is that I can Christmas roll that y'all make, whatever that shit is. Oh, the panda jamon. Oh, the panda jamon. Oh, no, not panda jamon. The other one. I love panda jamon.

That's good. It's the other one where you put the meats and the mayonnaise and the pickles and the whatever it is. Oh, the ayacas? Ayacas! Oh! Yeah, it's an acquired taste. Do you like ayacas?

I didn't like ayacas until it became sort of a symbol of nostalgia. Like when I was in Venezuela, I was like, get this actual lump of trash away from you. Yes. And now I'm like, I love this. It's a little present. It's wrapped. I love it so much, you know. So here's a funny story.

So we go to box something up and send it to Venezuela and there's a company shipping company owned by a Venezuelan guy tiny you like go to this Self-storage area and then you back your truck up and then there's a guy in the self storage with a light bulb hanging out He's taping stuff and he's like don't worry brother. I get it to you, you know, and you're like, okay All right, so he goes and they ask her to him connect because of course they're Venezuelan, he does, you know, he speaks, he mainly speaks Spanish. He goes, you have to wait here one second. And we're okay, fantastic. It's like the second year that she's here.

He goes into a freezer that's sitting on this storage floor, the size of this room. He opens up the freezer and he takes out 100 Ayakas. It's September and he takes out 100 Ayakas in a box and he puts it in the back of our car. And how big are these? They're like their corn husk. They look like they're made with corn husk. And should be clear, Ayakas are not eaten in any other time other than Christmas. No. It is a Christmas food. And that's the only time that you eat it. Or the only time that you should

eat it. And then on top of that my mother-in-law comes and now we clear the entire kitchen. There's a picnic table seven and a half feet long and we're making a hundred more ayakas. And I'm like who the fuck do you think is coming to dinner? Who's gonna eat all these ayakas? I have ayakas from 2012 and my fucking freezer. I swear to God I do. And I just like them so much. But all. I'm sorry.

Yeah. But. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I know, I know how it is. And at least I have like the nostalgia element of like childhood. But if as an adult I was introduced to this

and I had to just tolerate it, I would resent it. I would resent the idea you have. I dislike it. Yeah. And even my kids dislike it. They try and make it with different things so that they can try and please me and appease me. And I'm like, I just don't like, even the word Iacas turns me off.

So let's just skip it. Everything else is lovely, please bring it on. But the Iacas, but what I wanted to say is there is something about the Venezuelan culture that like the Raphael's family took me in when things were tough with my own family and for years I just felt such love there was no judgment such love I mean they were judging me behind my back and speaking Spanish. That's how we do it.

Yeah but when I learned to speak Spanish they went into the other room so and and then there's something so loving and wonderful and warm about the culture. And I wonder, I wonder about why that is and why my Irish, in Venezuela, in the Venezuelan culture, at least around my house, you show up four hours late for a party. So if you want it to start to date, you have to say you need to be there by four. And then they will not leave until four the next afternoon, no matter how much you try and telegraph to them that the party has been over for a long time, if a Venezuelan that you know comes within 300 miles of your house, they are staying at your house for an indefinite amount of time. It doesn't matter how many other Venezuelans

happen to be staying at your house at the same time, and they will always, always, always, greet you with a hug and a smile there Wonderful culture, and I'm so happy to be a part of it because I am Irish and in my Irish Catholic culture We have a game. Yes. We have a game. It's who can get out of the party faster Without saying anything to anybody. It's the Irish goodbye. That's it. Yep the Irish goodbye I Would love to have you on again. We've already gone 45 minutes. I know I'm wasting a bunch of your time.

Oh my god, it just happened. Project. I know. What's up? No, I feel like, I feel like, I feel like. We can go on forever. I feel like we just started talking. I know.

This is a. Guys, what? No. You want to keep going, I'll keep going. Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt you, Chris. I just wanted to say going, I'll keep going. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Chris. I just wanted to say I love this conversation so much. I want to be the third host. Absolutely.

I'm moving in. I'm moving in. Come on in. Don't you have a podcast? Did you restart a podcast? You're here to stay in here, too. Stay in the belt. You can stay here.

I'm going to stay there for an indefinite amount of time. Yeah, I have a podcast called Hyphenated with Cuban American comedian Jenny Lorenzo. Yes, check out Hamster and Gretel. We really want that season three. So the more you guys watch it, the more probable it is. And I'm working on some other projects that I, according to contracts, can't talk about. Don't talk about it. We don't want to get anybody in trouble here.

We're already blacklisted from Venezuela. We don't want to get anybody in trouble here. We're already blacklisted from Venezuela. We don't want to get blacklisted from Hollywood also. Too many places. Or from Disney. You just got an N. I just got a free ride to Disney. Now I got to go. Joanna, you are welcome back anytime.

Astrid will be texting you in that WhatsApp group. As a matter of fact, let's have you back when you can talk about what's next for you Awesome. Let's do it. Love you. Thank you, Joanna. Oh my god. Gracias primo. Oh, give us your Instagram handle Give us your oh, yes my Instagram handle handle is at Joe house joh H a us. Yes, please Follow me and we can and you know what,

whoever wants to join my family, what's app chat, you're also welcome to join it. It's all in Spanish and all we do is talk about Brian's, all the Brian's of the world. That's what everybody does. Brian's are just bad news all together. All the, I, Brian. We love him, we love him, but why?

But I am. He leaves parties. We love him, but I cry. He leaves parties without saying goodbyes. I don't anymore. The Venezuelans cut that shit out real quick. You can't sneak out of a door when Venezuelans are there. Well, you're going. You don't take. You need the tix. Tix of an apos. Okay, we love you, Joanna. We'll talk to you soon.

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You can also text us your tea at 855-TCB-8383, and boy do we love to hear it. Anyway, take a listen to our sponsors and let's get back to the show. Wow, now I feel kind of bad that I just like, I was trying to wrap it up and Joanne was like, wait, we're just getting going. that I just like, I was trying to wrap it up and Joanna's like, wait, we're just getting going. And I'm like, oh, shit.

You know, she's amazing. She was so spectacular. If you will. Spectacular, not amazing. We're gonna delete the word amazing from this show because it's amazing how many times I've said that word in this time. But Joanna really was fun.

Remember when we had Felicia Day on? Yes. I thought Felicia Day was so much fun and Joanna had that similar vibe to her. And yeah, we were just connecting, but I have to feel like with our guests, it's kind of like when I was on the dating scene, I broke up with you before you could break up with me.

Like I saw it coming, so I just said it early. Right. You don't want her to say it. I'm gonna hurt you, now you don't hurt me. I didn't want Joanna to say, well, it's been fun. But the last 13 minutes have been fun, but I do have to go. Which I think is... What is that? Oh, somebody's called me from the other side.

Ah, Blue's parking. I got to go. Landscapers are here. Which is all true. Oh my God, those landscapers. Holy shit. He came again today Like two days after he last came This time I had to text him I had to be like Juan listen We have no grass you cutting it is not helping it grow

It's the middle of winter. It's 22 degrees out at night. You do not need to cut my mud. You't. My mud doesn't need cutting. I was thinking of the other dough. I know, he's just making density. He's just rolling his hybrid machinery over it. And I'm like, dude, first of all, second of all, I thought we talked about 12 to four. Like those are the no-no times. Those are no-no's and then you have go-go times, right? And I know, I realize you actually do work for a living

and I sit here and talk shit about you while you do that. But if you could please, he probably knows about the commercial break and that's why everybody knows. Everybody in the school, the landscaper, the pool guy, they all figure it out because it's 2024 and it's not that hard. I'm waiting for the people at Starbucks to realize that I have the commercial break and then I'll have to go to a different Starbucks because I'll be embarrassed to go in there. We had a babysitter that came in and then Astrid was, Astrid has, Astrid loves the commercial break. She loves the fact that we have the commercial break. So I come out the other day from the studio, we're wrapping up and then I hear them talking

about the commercial break and the babysitter was like, the lady helps the kids. It was like, oh, I'm going gonna take a listen today on the way home. And I'm like, no, please don't. It took us a long time. I heard her say that. It took a long time to find a good one. You're good. I don't wanna, check it out.

It's called smart list. Right. But Joanna was wonderful. I hope we can have her back. Now I got a free trip to Disney. Or do you think she just said yes, because like that those times when I asked them to come back and they have to say it. She seems sincere. She did. I know. And now you're gonna hold her back now. I got a free trip to Disney or do you think she just said yes? Because like that those times when I asked them to come back and they have to say

She seems sincere. She did. I know and now you're gonna hold her to it I'm gonna hold her to it I'm gonna make her come to my house so that we can all go to Disney World together It's gonna be like what I get myself into You're like you an astronaut I'll hit it off right away. We'll all go together. We'll stay here. Yeah., you take the kids. We're going on Space Mountain. You're metaswailing. You're all the same.

Don't worry about it. You're just like their mother. But I don't know. Maybe that one kid might have a total meltdown. That's true. One of our kids doesn't like anybody but me, apparently. All right. Okay, enough fun for one day.

Stop it. Stop it, everybody. Go home. Start it off. it's enough already. Yeah, so thanks to Joanna Hausman. Joe House on Instagram, J-O-H-A-U-S, we'll put a link in the description so that you guys can follow her on her instas

and watch TacomaFD, I'm serious. Have you ever seen the show? I haven't, it is funny. It is funny. And endearing. It is endearing, yeah yeah it's sweet it's like i got this sweet undertone to it where you're like oh okay that's cool i like that you know it's not everybody's brand of humor but i think you'll find at least some of it but there's a lot of slapstick stuff in there too which

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